Events and Opportunities

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 Past Events and Opporunities:

Experiential Learning Coffee & Brainstorming 

Prairie Room at Memorial Union

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 from 8 - 9:30 AM

Please join members of the Experiential Learning Committee for coffee and conversation about Experiential Learning Innovation Grants that are available through the Office of the Provost! Learn more about Funding Opportunities here.

Civic Engagement September Speakers Series

2024 Fall Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship - Loud Light

The application cycle for Loud Light’s 2024 Fall Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship is now open. This is a voter education and campus engagement fellowship. Students will become familiar with their local ballot, research candidates, host educational events, do get-out-the-vote work, and become a campus and community resource. Fellows will make contact with potential voters through a variety of methods including phone banking, canvassing, tabling, and presentations to classrooms and student organizations at FHSU. 

This is a semester-long commitment that lasts from the beginning of the fall semester through the end of November. It is a remote fellowship that requires internet access (Loud Light is based in Topeka). The hourly wage is $15 with a flexible schedule of approximately 10-15 hours a week. Group meetings will be held on Zoom once a week (Mondays from 4-5) with one school-based small group check-in to be scheduled at a time that works for the selected student.

More information about the fellowship and application process can be found here.

Two-day conference for the campus faculty, staff, and community partners surrounding Community Engaged Teaching, Research, and Service through a justice and equity lens. 

Featured Speaker: Dr. John Reiff, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education 

Tiger Farm Tidy Up: October 7, 2023, lunch provided (Co-creating Community event)

Join the Ag Ambassadors to beautify the FHSU farm. Participants can come for the whole day or for one of two shifts. The first shift is from 8am to 12pm and the second shift is from 12pm to 4pm. Activities include mowing, weed whacking, cutting down trees, painting fences, and clearing the space of unusable items. The team will also be decorating the farm entrance to make it more fun and inviting! 

Arts for Social Change: September 12, 2023, 6-8 PM (Co-creating Community event)

Join Art and Design Professor, Amy Schmierbach, and her Arts for Social Change students for a fun-filled, hands-on collaborative textile weaving art project as part of the Co-Creating Community initiative. Join a lively conversation around the looms and weave away! No previous art experience necessary.

Global Community Engagement Day: January 29, 2023

Global Affairs and Civic Learning & Engagement sponsored a service-learning field trip to the Kansas Wetlands Education Center to learn about wetland communities, conservation and sustainability and build birdhouses onsite. 

Browse photos from the event below. 

Hands-On Learning, Learning by Doing, Experiential-Learning...Learn How!

Wednesday, January 11, 2023
1:00 - 1:45 PM  
McCartney Hall #104 

*Professional Development Day Spring 2023 Session 

Times Talk: Calling People into Conversation for the Greater Good

Wednesday, November 9, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 PM 
Forsyth Library, South Study Area
View the Recording Here

Sponsored by: American Democracy Project

Experiential Learning Coffee & Brainstorming 

This event occurs each semester prior to the application deadline for the Experiential-Learning Innovation Grant. Learn more about Funding Opportunities. 

The 2024 Kansas Women’s Leadership Institute (KWLI)

The Kansas Women’s Leadership Institute (KWLI) is currently accepting applications for its 2024 program. “The KWLI is a five-week immersive leadership program held at the University of Kansas and designed for college-aged women to study adaptive leadership, identify their leadership competencies, and make progress on an issue or project they care about in their home community. Following the five-week immersive experience, participants engage online in a structured 9-month series of learning modules. And after that…a lifetime of making a difference by continued learning about and effectively engaging in the process of leadership.”

For more information, please click here! The deadline to apply is December 1, 2023.